Man's destiny was no longer determined from 'above' by a super-human wisdom and will, but from 'below' by the sub-human agencies of… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“Oh, don’t worry, I am perfectly aware of the fantasy involved here, but what we want is almost never exempt from the… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
Scientists do not believe in fundamental and absolute certainties. For the scientist, certainty is never an end, but a search; not the… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
It is almost possible to predict one or two days in advance, within a rather broad range of probability, what the weather… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share Image
It was our use of probability theory as logic that has enabled us to do so easily what was impossible for those… — Edwin Thompson Jaynes Copy Share Image
Anyone who dares to speak about an aether is regarded as an ignorant and backward mind and he can only lose his… — Maurice Allais Copy Share Image
Just as entropy is a measure of disorganization, the information carried by a set of messages is a measure of organization. In… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
I have been too long acquainted with human nature to have great regard for human testimony; and a very great degree of… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Regarding the air raid over Los Angeles it was learned by Army G2 that Rear Admiral Anderson...recovered an unidentified airplane off the… — George C. Marshall Copy Share Image
If an event can be produced by a number n of different causes, the probabilities of the existence of these causes, given… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
Contrary to the popular notion that only creationism relies on the supernatural, evolutionism must as well, since the probabilities of random formation… — Chandra Wickramasinghe Copy Share Image
Time Management Tips: One can make a radar-like sweep of the horizon to identify time and task challenges while these are still… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
“Trust a witness in all matters in which neither his self-interest, his passions, his prejudices, nor the love of the marvellous is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you have the feeling of choice, if you feel free, you will be better off. And when I say better off… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
I have resigned from the professional undertaking of coin flipping. I am not here to tell you where gold's going to be.… — Hugh Hendry Copy Share Image
On moral grounds, I think that if you believe a certain outcome is a very possible outcome, you have an obligation to… — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
The endeavor of scientific research to see events in their more general connection in order to determine their laws, is a legitimate… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
A problem of statistical inference or, more simply, a statistics problem is a problem in which data that have been generated in… — Morris H. DeGroot Copy Share Image
What happens with fear is that probability doesn't matter very much. That is, once I have raised the possibility that something terrible… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
If often happens too, both in courts and in cabinets, that there are two things going on together,--a main plot and an… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I am fully assured, that no general method for the solution of questions in the theory of probabilities can be established which… — George Boole Copy Share Image
Excess dietary salt is most notorious for increasing blood pressure. Americans have a 90 percent lifetime probability of developing high blood pressure… — Joel Fuhrman Copy Share Image
I found maths very easy, but I still enjoyed discovering things. You have to have the necessary information. For example, what's the… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
It is impossible for a Die, with such determined force and direction which makes it fall on such a determined side, only… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
“What is your probability of winning twice the New Jersey lottery? One in 17 trillion. Yet it happened to Evelyn Adams, whom… — Fooled By Randomness Nassim Taleb Copy Share Image
It is a well-known fact that in countries in which the national debt is properly funded, and an object of established confidence,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
At one time, the earth was supposed to be flat. Well, so it is, even today, from Paris to Asnieres. But that… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
A Resource-Based Economy is in the application of the methods of science with human concern and environmental concern. If we used the… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
A miscalculation is not negligence, nor prudence a crime. I am a scientist. I base my action or inaction upon probability and… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“People play the lottery all the time unaware of how mind-bogglingly difficult it is to win. It seems like they take a… — Orlando Winters Copy Share Image
It follows that the word probability, in its mathematical acceptance, has reference to the state of our knowledge of the circumstances under… — George Boole Copy Share Image
A thoughtful investment process contemplates both probability and payoffs and carefully considers where the consensus - as revealed by a price -… — Michael Mauboussin Copy Share Image
The belief in the probability of death with dignity is our, and society’s, attempt to deal with the reality of what is… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change… — George Boole Copy Share Image
I believe the calculation of the quantity of probability might be improved to a very useful and pleasant speculation, and applied to… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
